Now, be free
the sky must have fallen
when I couldn't see
your life's weak strain
I take a step back
and you've fallen again

But if you'd listened
a little closer
reaching over
this cold shoulder

Oh Charlie, a boy and his toys
I see you lying stiff and cold
spread out upon the bedroom floor
kiss me darling with those
pale lips once more
hands could never comfort you
not so well as steel could do

Freak on in
did you think ths time
you would finally win
a trip of life

Repeat B sectionRepeat Chorus

Reeling spinning out of lies
daisy vision in your eyes
boat is sinking someone cries
you have left me to surmise
your surprise

Hey little devil that dwells inside
this angel's body, this angel's mind
he said "all I need is Jesus to fly"
take a little peak through that head of hair
I know somewhere there are eyes in there
trying to hide a heart that's shining, so bright

they said "what makes you different, from us?"
we're gonna bang your head, down

I've got a dream that's growing inside me
I'm ready to burst and set it free
I know god waits in the city, of angels
now I've been building a wall these many years
I feel safe inside hiding all my fears
don't hold your breath
if you're trying to touch me

they said "don't believe in yourself
we're gonna band your head, down
we're gonna band your head
band your head down"

We are aging
soon to pass away
so cruel to never know, never know
never finish what was started.

My whole life's been really strange
I've been running in circles
trying to make a change
I transcend myself with Billy I'm home

The lyrics of the song tell the story of a girl who can't get away to see her paramour; he is far away, because of the war with the Turks of the Ottoman Empire.

She said that the song is a very widely known Ukrainian (not Russian) folk song of the "lyrical" variety, dating from the 1600s, when the Turks of the Ottoman Empire were trying to conquer the areas of Ukraine, as well as other parts of Europe. Another type of folk song is the historical, which reports on events.

Here's a little general background. After the Turks took over the Crimea, they went after Ukraine. The battles with the Turks went on for around 200 years. The Turks were quite brutal in their warmaking; they tortured the Ukrainians, who were mainly Christians, in an attempt to dominate them and turn the country into a Moslem stronghold.

Bird-related imagery is common in Ukrainian lyrical folksongs from that era. It was common for Ukraine to be referred to metaphorically as a seagull in these lyrical folksongs, and the nightingale reference in "In A Glade" is another example.

Other points of note. The repetition of the first line throughout the song was a common stylistic touch in the lyrical folksongs of that era. Likewise, the songs usually took their titles from the line being repeated, which brings us to the translation itself.

The Slavic languages don't have articles in them. They have no word "the", for example. My friend--and she asked her husband to back her up on this even--was adamant that the word "forest" was the lyric, not "glade". Now, a glade is *in* a forest, and perhaps Milla knows the song as it is interpreted by people in more modern times to specifically refer to a glade rather than a forest, but otherwise, we are left with a situation where the first line of the verses could be either "in forest", "in glade", "in a forest", or "in the glade". Is this complicated enough yet?

The other thing of note here is the way Milla sounds while singing it. My friend's husband put it his way, "She has a hard Russian accent while singing in Ukrainian".

That's about it. More than you bargained for, I'm sure. Now you know what Milla meant when she said the song was "scary", though.

(Richard Handal)

In Ukrainian songs, Dunai (Danube) just means a river, any river, any stream, not specifically the Danube. (Orysia T.)

In my reckless lifelong rambling
I saw a man break one day
Such a saint, he only lived on paint
He only spoke in prose
Gave his life to save his soul

When he walked out one day
He said, "Please don't believe them
They never understand the triumph the goal of victory
Tell them flippant things and starlet rings
And eyes and nervous laughter
But never say what's on your mind."

Who's gonna take?
And who's gonna swallow?
All these empty dreams back
What of tomorrow?

Wanting more for no abilities
Is this for whom we must provide?
Curse this thing that's called achievement
Curse your striding bounds
Kill the fire in your eyes

Who's gonna take?
And who's gonna swallow?
All these empty dreams back
What of tomorrow?

You see it
But could you ever believe it?
Your fate
But could you really heed it?
Can't help it
But can you bend your back like this?

Take your damn lies and go
I shrugged this world off my shoulders
Pretty crowds who speak and clouds
Great wits of conversation
Skim this life but never live

And you'd never know, falling
How well the wind blows
But you never feel it
When you're falling
Cause when you're falling
You're not free

Will we ever share how we feel
When our dreams touch
But our dreams they don't have choices
Don't have lips and don't have voices
Don't have flowers when you're shrinking
Give you hours of their dreams

We will have to tread softly
Else wake the big night
But she's stringing stars' moonlight
We won't wrong her
With a big fight
Come be sweetly, come be mild
Put me in your pocket

I feel I've lost the story
But should've not have been
I close my eyes to try
Find what can't be seen
I smell of crazy days
Lazy haze and you
??? to you

Let's talk of what I need
Shall we?
I need you beside me
We're free tonight
When we need we're not free
We're free tonight
When we need we're not free

She's gonna go over to him
Say that it's over with him
She knows that their love will never win
Say that it's over with him

She knows herself better than any man could
When she's under his pressure she's not feeling misunderstood
Such strange behavior
From a man who is better than good
Will he still love her
If she wants to love him different way than he wants?

She's gonna go over to him
Say that it's over with him
She knows that their love will never win
Say that it's over with him

She knows herself better than any man could
When she's under his pressue she's not feeling misunderstood
Such strange behavior
From a man who is better than good
Will he still love her
If she wants to love him different way than he wants?

She knows he loves her

She can't love him like he wants her to love him
She can't love him like he wants her to love him
to love him
to love
to love

You I light the sky with brush bright
Shake a little now
This candy tree needs a shaking
So bring all your coocoos and clouds

Be my friend,
That word friend and I were on personal terms
Will be a glimmer of friend
Like, like the sequins in my skirts
I friend you while you touch
Three days old
Still whistles in my skin
It's all so soft and lovely
With you

Hey you hey you hey you hey you
With the flying fingers and the scent that lingers
Some music
And then I thought it'd be a happy song
I guess we sang it wrong
Maybe I wrote it wrong

Be my friend,
That word friend and I were on personal terms
Will be a glimmer of friend
Like, like the sequins in my skirts
I friend you while you touch
Three days old
Still whistles in my skin
It's all so soft and lovely
With you

Christened crown now,
With an invitation with an exclamation like golden ages

Oh pretty creature
From what door did you arrive?
Oh what madness will you drive me to?
Let me kiss your hand
And send you back smaller then sand
Swimming in your black mind
You often take me off inside my head

Let me take a ride and worship
Your size
Let me take a ride and worship
Your size

Oh I'm dying
Dying myself with colors of you
Remembering our sweet pretending
Oh big lover
Fun will protect like love
Oh most beautiful as the con-creature
Meet me at the motel six
You said you'd always be my lover

Cause there is no place like the snowman
For just another moment
There is no place like the snowman
For just another moment

All the clouds roll on
Roll on before you
Who can say anything
When the sun shines, it shines
I turn my face towards your face
Alone facing the sun
Facing the sun
Then the wind will follow
Blowing away trace of tomorrow
On the hill grows
A single silver rose
On the hill grows
Everything I'd ever longed for

Find myself walking on
So far...so far
Look behind the wind's fire
My sun still shinning away
How many times did I look behind?
Stare at my sun to light
Blind to die

No the sparks came and went like sparks do
Time and fire never tried to help them stay
But my sun burns my own lies and dries them

rocket collecting dust
hidden from all memory
bathed in outrage and rust
waiting for you and me
to own it
watch you as you douse the ceiling
light up all the evil dreams
till they ignite screaming into the night
and we run away clean

chorus:
i wish i was half electronic
the last shreds of skin are in the sweet sunlight
and i've turned into this smiling, snarling monster
as i watch the walls descend
as i watch the walls descend like stars

half submersed
i reach your island at night
washed up tangled on these stones
a gorgeous wreck crashing
to lay here for the next 600 years
the storm will play out there for miles on every side
so tell me who's got the dominoes
but you'll have to leave your lightning outside

The birds and the bees they got wise to the lies
So they took to the trees and took to the skies
On top of the chain and safe from the rain
Whatcha' know about the ways of the underside?

Bought a hot shot gat from a north end guinea
'Cause they're hip to the bull and they're hip to the lies
Ante up witcha ass 'cause you ain't got a penny
Whatcha' know about the ways on the underside?

Bought a hot shot gat from a north end guinea
Ante up witcha ass 'cause you ain't got a penny
Droppin' bombs from above cut ya all down to size
'Cause they're hip to the bull and they're hip to the lies

Yeah, the streets rose in two perfect waves in the night
One crashes on my left, and one on my right
It's all fire and brimstone baby, so let's go outside
It's all fire and brimstone baby, I got my brand new pistol baby

Bought a hot shot gat from a north end guinea
Ante up witcha ass 'cause you ain't got a penny
Droppin' bombs from above cut you all down to size
'Cause they're hip to the bull and they're hip to the lies
And they're hip to the lies

Our turn to decide, who lives and who dies
Right in front of your eyes, it's time to get up
Our turn to decide, who lives and who dies
Now wise to the lies it's time to get up
Our turn to decide, who lives and who dies
Whatcha' know about the ways on the underside?

Bought a hot shot gat from a north end guinea
Now answer the lies, it's time to get up
Ante up with your ass 'cause you ain't got a penny
Time to get up
Dropping bombs from above cut you all down to size
Now wise to the lies, it's time to get up
'Cause they're hip to the bull and they're hip to the lies
And they're hip to the lies

Our turn to decide, who lives and who dies
Now wise the lies it's time to get up
Our turn to decide, who lives and who dies
Right in front of your eyes, it's time to get up
Our turn to decide, who lives and who dies
Now wise to the lies it's time to get up
Our turn to decide, who lives and who dies

(Demo: You are welcome to download the MP3 and remix it, but you may not sell it. Enjoy!)

timing ain't holding up
but my world is blowin up
you make me feel so fine
now you're surprised that i ain't ordinary

-i feel me breathing in your sleep
can you feel it?-

grazing your lips with my fingertips
we wake up a few times
to speak of dreams that make it hard to sleep

-are you dying in your dreams
i know sometimes i can feel it
turn into to stone by the light of morning
disappear without meaning
are you taking up time
that thoughts pressing thru my mind
oh baby, i'm fine
can you believe it?

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we're released
like fireworks
streaking out in great bright lines
diving up
into the sky
reach out and crush us night
receive us
receive us with honor

-breathe out here
we're released like fireworks-

weeks go by unseen
they're feeding ghosts in the twilight
and you with your terrible sweet ways
and winding roads
drop me headfirst into the trees
and see if i can't fall any higher
i hold a blade
of one blade of grass
to your heart

-chorus-

i'll take off from the surface of the water
diving up
you're at the edge of my vision
a crazy missile
glittering and silent
and it feels good rising up
and it feels like it's never gonna stop
i get fired
i just breathe out
i've been fired

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another crystal grin
to make up for the dark skies
put on my best dress so the mess
won't touch my little insides
did you think i'd still be greener
than the weed inside your glass pipe?
greener than the vomit on your shirt

dreaming of a lady strangling a flower
a pretend park with pretend children
in your pretend sight
my love was waiting open armed and close hearted
still out there with his setting sun

-and if i could just
fall too soon
i still wouldn't get there quick enough
waiting,waiting...
there still wouldn't be no one waiting around
but i'll get myself there anyhow-

i cup the silence
so your whisper can be seen
just me and kim marie
were braiding eyes and thoughts and memories
can't put my finger on the way you taste
or what's your face
or... what was that you told me with a sigh?

-chorus-
why put that dream in your scream?
why tell me to fuck off?
put the past in the sugar bowl
make it all a little creamier...

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brace myself
space myself
throw myself from the window
throw myself from an aerial view
of the highest
a holy fall
it was a holy fall...

-Holy fall
it was a holy fall that brought me here
holy fall
it was a holy fall that brought me-

wrinkled old doll face
on her way to the ball
i've got only myself
to thank for it all
i can picture you almost brushin up against me
ican picture you almost touchin me
and it's not dark at all
it's not dark at all in here

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who r u
what r u on?
i don't know if i really wanna know cause
you're gonna sweep me out
i wanna cut it away
i wanna lose my body
i send you my thoughts
we bleed into entropy
you're gonna spread me out

chorus:
what collides?
what r we?
do we die?
wake old and weak and slow
and wonder
did i have control?

give me a little light before i close my eyes
and i'll see you down there
when i open them the next time
to see you i gotta shift my focus
i can feel my body breathe
but it's not air
cause air's a dream
we're always changing thru our mind
you'll still know me by my smile

-chorus-

i lose my heart in wind and water
but lost is just what can't be seen
besides what is and what things were
there's worlds of what was in between
worlds folded more than 4

i always like to take
pictures from car windows
drive and drive and drive and drive
and always trying to race my life
well, carolina
carolina here i come
june bugs on your back porch
hey let's have some fun

Drown my head
In the fire
Were moving faster now
Burning brighter
watch as you fade out
I'm left and right
walking up and down
getting closer to, the point of impact
hold me, under
stay away and stay "I can never decide with you"
my heart my whole life override my mind
what I wait to find
to make me go blind
and the whole world, is rising
Throw myself
you go down below
watch the vapor, slide through the water
at last, he'll run